Her core argument is that most meetings fail before they start because the people who call them mistake a category for a purpose. "We're meeting about the product launch" is a category. A real purpose is specific enough to tell you who belongs in the room, what success looks like, and when you're done. Most gatherings skip this entirely. Her hybrid meeting work adds another layer: the format structurally disadvantages certain participants, and most organisations are doing nothing about it.
Chuck and Jenni connect this to the Microsoft data on captured value — and ask who actually owns meeting design when the answer is usually no one.
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